Jan Vanderlinden is a painter living in Boulder, Colorado. Working from the figure, still life or landscape Jan takes time with her subjects, letting them act upon her and inform what she paints. What she experiences from her subject is considered from the point of view of verisimilitude, art history and ideas about depicting space such as perspective, color, line and value. Painting is an interaction between subject, the eye-mind-hand, and canvas. Painting is a dialogue, the painter a mediator or interlocutor between canvas and subject.